Hacked Info

Google the search engine giant flagged the entire internet as malware between 6:30 a.m. PST and 7:25 a.m. PST on Jan 31st. Every websites linked from Google search ended by in malware warning “This site may harm your computer”. Government websites, CNN, Associated press all were reported as malware site. It could be some glitch [...]

The term “Social Engineering” sounds like a serious academic subject on reforming a wayward society! Alas, far from the truth, it is pure and simple trickery, a con job. The attacker uses his social skills to take advantage on the human tendency to trust someone at his words. He/she can pretend to be a legitimate official, a person of authority, a helpdesk assistant or a new employee trying to learn his ropes. The purpose of all these deceptions are to extract sensitive personal or company information, such as the social security number, credit card details, email address, login name and password, company financial data, client details, marketing plan, organizational structure or a host of other details, all with the intent of defrauding.

Scarewares are the latest online menace, which attempt to scare you and thus make you buy fake fix solutions to cure your perfectly working computer system.  They would appear as ‘security alert’ pop-ups, warning the users of critical errors and offer to do a free scan of the system to identify the errors.  These alerts [...]

According to twitter, a micro blogging site, 33 twitter accounts were compromised and false and inappropriate messages were posted online. Hacked accounts include prominent twitter sources like President-elect Barack Obama, Rick Sanchez, Britney Spears, Fox News etc. It’s believed that accounts were compromised after a hacker accessed tools of the support team used to reset [...]

A nice simple video that explains you (ie: your parents or grand parents) how to avoid phishing scams. Check it out

China says it is fighting hard against the growing number of SMS based spam messages. About 5hundred thousand complaints were filed last month in china on SMS related spam. Reports say that more than 13 unsolicited messages make its ways to the average cell phone users in china every week and is rising 50% every [...]

Just got an email like this and hope it is one of the newest scam out there. “China domain copyright protection scam”. The company wants to warn that our domain name is in danger and some company in china is allegedly trying to register china specific TLDs. This is the first time that we are [...]

Last month we had about 400 emails asking details on how to break into the email account. The reason many of them put forward are ‘they forgot and got important information in it’, ‘I forgot the security answer’, ‘yahoo, hotmail support persons not responding’, ’I want to help my girl friend’. We are sorry folks [...]

Read this article carefully. We are not endorsing hacking in any form. DO NOT FELL PREY TO ANY SUCH SCAM AS EXPLAINED BELOW A friend of ours asked us “is it possible to retrieve yahoo password”.  On further discussion we found out that he was waiting to get the password from an old password recovery [...]